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A plaque in a quaint patio house

About 1 meter wide and 2.5 meters long,

Cooking smoke that has been grown up for many months

Touched dark and shiny

"Jinshi" wooden plaque,

Hanging in the middle of the Hu family patio house,

Make this humble patio house

With a sense of cultural taste and history.

A plaque in a quaint patio house

Underneath the plaque hung a black wooden plaque of similar size with the words "See Righteousness and Courage". The two wooden plaques are not replicas, of which the Jinshi plaque has been more than 200 years old. These two ancient plaques are intact because of the care of the Hu family.

Xianlu Mountain

The dragon head is out of the dragon tail out of the soldier

Xingshan County Huangliang Town Boundary Monument Ya Village and Gufu Town Longchi Village in the same vein, living in a mountain range that resembles a dragon, Longchi Village three groups have a pair of sinkholes leading directly to the underground river, known as "dragon" eyes, so the location of the dragon head is very clear. At the highest altitude of more than 1600 meters above sea level, Xianlu Mountain is called Dragon's Tail locally, and under Xianlu Mountain is a group of Jiebei Ya Village. It is this fairy mountain where the dragon culture is rich, and the dragon head and the dragon tail fly out of the 2 "dragons". During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Longchi Village in the longtou position came out with a champion named Xianggu Zhen, but unfortunately, Yi Guzhen only got a title and suffered the disaster of destroying the Nine Tribes.

After Yugu Zhen won the title of champion, the emperor wanted to recruit Yigu Zhen as a donkey, and Yigu Zhen had a virtuous wife, and found that the princess was pregnant for about 3 months, and immediately rejected the emperor, and when the emperor asked for reasons, the unscrupulous Yigu Zhen told the truth that the princess was pregnant.

The princess was pregnant before marriage, which undermined the royal majesty, and the emperor was furious. However, in order to prevent scandals from spreading to the palace, and in order to punish Yigu Zhen for resisting the will and disrespecting, he divided the body of Yigu Zhen's five horses and wanted to plant the Nine Tribes. When the news came, the people with the surname of Xiang who lived in Xingshan were in a mess, and in order to avoid the disaster, some people changed their surnames, and some people scattered and fled. It is said that there are still tombstones of zhen descendants of Yangu Zhen in Baokang as evidence. The title of Xingshan County fell in such a way that people sighed and sighed, and so far the locals only sighed.

Years passed between the eyebrows, and in February of the ninth year of Jiaqing, Hu Kaishi of Jiebei Ya Village in Huangliang Town was a jinshi. The "Jinshi Plaque" hanging in the home of a group of Jin Kaixiu in Jiebei Ya Village is the best proof, and the payment is the Name of Hubei College, which is the ninth year of Jiaqing.

Hu Jiazhi, the 5th generation descendant of Hu Kaishi, said with regret that after the old ancestor Hu Kaishi was a jinshi at the age of 54, he died of illness at the age of sixty in the fifteenth year of Jiaqing, and the tombstone records that he had not yet enjoyed the treatment of Deng Shilang and returned to his hometown. In fact, the first version of Hu Jiazhi said that after Hu Kaishi was a jinshi, he drowned after overturning the boat on the way back to Xiangxi from Yichang, and the reporter found that this fact was suspicious, and asked Hu Jiazhi and the elder of the Hu family to verify before the press release, Hu Jiazhi put down the farm work and braved the rain to find Hu Kaishi's epitaph, and came to the fact that Jinshi died of illness.

Xianlu Mountain resembles a flying dragon that takes off from the top of the mountain to the Xingshan water road. The dragon head has the Northern Song Dynasty Champion Gu Zhen, and the dragon tail has the Jiaqing nine-year jinshi Hu Kaishi. Locals talk about these two characters with deep sorrow and regret.

Patio house

The two plaques of the Hu family are proud

On December 1, when the reporter walked into a group of Jiebei Ya Village, Hu Jiazhi was working in the field, and when he learned that the Three Gorges Geographical Interview Group was interviewed, he put down his work and rushed back with his hands covered in dirt. Hu Jiazhi's mother, Kim Kai-so, was one of those who lived in the patio house. Jinshi Hu Kaishi is Hu Jiazhi's grandfather and the father of Hu Jiazhi's grandfather Hu Yingyan.

This seemingly simple patio house is grandpa's family property, and the Hu family patio house is not comparable to the Zeng family compound seen by the reporter in Gongyu Village, Hekou Township, Yuan'an County. The Zeng family compound consists of 11 large and small patios, with a total of 110 houses gathered in the courtyard. Compared with the Tianjia Flower House Patio House in Ziqiu Town, Changyang County, the Hu family patio lacks carved dragons and phoenixes.

From the appearance, the Hu family's patio may have been overlooked, and does not show the old, compared to the surrounding houses, only the façade has been repainted old houses. In addition to the opening of the patio, the sill, and the stone of the household pair, the stone carving process on the household pair has been smashed, and it looks like simple stone. The bricks are mud bricks, and the patio roof is also a simple kind, with no powder walls, no dewa, no warped corners, and no horse head wall. At the back of the house, the bird's eye view of the patio house has been eroded by the years, and the vicissitudes are full of vicissitudes.

The three patio houses can never be seen from the outside that this house is a patio, so that in 2020, when the reporter participated in the Xingshan County Farmers' Harvest Festival in Jiebeiya Village, he ate at a place 50 meters from the patio house, and passed several times in front of the patio house and did not find that this was an ancient building.

The three-room patio house is the old house where Hu Jiazhi's 79-year-old mother, Kim Kai-so, and sister-in-law Kim Tae-mei live. Of course, the property rights are also the joint property of Hu Jiazhi and his uncles and nephews. The two elderly people each live in a room, and the middle patio is divided into two. When the reporter entered the patio house, the door was an iron lock, and the key was taken out by Jin Taimei, so he entered the patio from the room of the old man next to Jin Kaixiu.

Walking into the Hu family patio is different from other patios, two large wooden plaques jump into the eye, making people's eyes bright, immediately making this somewhat shabby patio house shine, the top plaque has only two words - traditional "Jinshi", and next to the Jinshi plaque is the traditional character "see the righteous and courageous". Two plaques hang on the wooden wall wall, the wall wall is quite elaborate, there are hollow carved window ledges, but the lower part of the wall is very new, is a golden yellow. According to the date on the plaque, the ninth year of Jiaqing is 1804, and it has been 217 years so far. The first of the plaques of "Seeing Righteousness and Courage" is "Mr. Hu Yingyan Old Mr. De with Lady Liu", and the payment is the main hall of Xingshan County, Yichang Province, the thirty-second year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1904, so far the annual ring is 117 years.

The Hu family obtained 2 wooden plaques that they were proud of, and there was no coincidence that they were not written, and the interval was exactly 100 years.

Red pear wooden plaque

Two hundred years without decay and insect-free moths

Hu Taisheng, a descendant of the 6th generation, introduced that the two plaques are the pride of the Hu family Guangzong Yaozu.

It is a complete miracle that the wooden plaque did not decay and was not mothed for 217 years. Hu Taisheng introduced that the two plaques are made of very bulky red rosewood. It was a difficult task to hang up, but the Hu family enshrined the honor of their ancestors as if they were gods. In particular, after his grandfather obtained the jinshi, although his career was not fruitful and his family was not well-off, he was charitable and charitable in the local area. According to the Hu family genealogy, In the year of the catastrophe, Hu Yingyan took the initiative to participate in public welfare activities and donated money and materials to disaster relief, because the grand duke had a high prestige in the local area.

Genealogy records: In the white orchard, a seller lost the pair containing the accounts and the silver two, which was picked up by Hu Yingyan, and the fish seller was very worried, crying bitterly, and once the silver two and the accounts were lost, the family would be ruined. The accounts are the liquor and operating ledgers sold on credit by each household, and there is no account to check after the loss, and there is no proof of the next year's collection. However, after Hu Yingyan found it, he returned it in full and refused to pay it, so that the fish seller was grateful, and the fish seller put the Hu family's morality on the county government, and during the Tongzhi period, the county government hung a plaque engraved with the words "Seeing Righteousness and Courage" with red flowers, and sent it to the Hu family by beating gongs and drums. This gave the Hu family a second piece of proud honor.

Hu Taisheng pointed to the top of a jinshi plaque and said: The original jinshi plaque is golden and shining, but in the folk, where there is a child's stomach pain, it is regarded as a partial room for gold powder to cure stomach pain, so whenever there is a child's stomach pain, scrape the gold powder on the jinshi plaque, whether it is the Hu family or the surrounding neighbors are superstitious about this folk remedy, the Hu family is also responsive. What is unclear is that the child's stomach hurts and drinks the folk water, the gold plaque has been planed more times, and the gold powder on the plaque has gradually disappeared, so that it is not visible at all now that it is a gold plaque.

In fact, it is also a miracle that the Hu family can preserve two ancient plaques for a hundred years. In the era of "breaking the four olds", Hu Taisheng's father Hu Jiaji desperately guarded the plaque, and when he raided the house, he hid the plaque under the cotton wool on the bed, and for many years he slept on the plaque, and the wooden plaque escaped a disaster. More than 30 years ago when Hu Jiazhi got married, the Hu family believed that the Jinshi plaque was the spiritual soul of the Hu family. So when Hu Jiazhi got married, the Hu family's jinshi plaque reappeared in the sky, and Hu Jiaji moved out to show people. Hu Jiaji has been made ancient, but the plaque is permanently hung in the courtyard house. When jiebei ya village implemented the construction of the new countryside, the Hu family's patio house and the indoor jinshi plaque became a landmark cultural symbol.

Because of the influence of Jinshi, a group of small places in Jiebei Ya Village was originally named Hujiawan, and later renamed Xianxi Bay. Xianxi Bay has more than 40 residents, in the construction of the new countryside with a cultural square, asphalt road is also paved into the village, the Hu family's patio house is not luxurious, there is not much to see, but the Hu family's jinshi plaque has become the purpose of many people to come to Jiebeiya Village, perhaps to feel the cultural atmosphere.

Source | Three Gorges Evening News

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Editor| Wang Yu Editor| Li Bin Xiong Qin Final Review | Zou Yuanjing

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